Slashdot Newsletter 2012-05-23

Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise   |  SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit     BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates  Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise  MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates  SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit  DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years  60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016  Depressed People Surf the Web Differently  US ISPs Delay Rollout of "Six Strikes" Copyright Enforcement Framework  Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android  Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention  Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle  UK Draft Energy Bill Avoids Banning Coal Or Gas Power  Microsoft Tests Social Search Waters With 'so.cl' Network  EU Offers Google Chance To Settle Prior To Anti-Trust Enquiry  Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed     BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates  From the gnu-is-a-crime department judgecorp writes "Despite continued pressure on business users to buy legitimate software, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reports that the campaign seems to be failing. Well over half (57%) of users surveyed in a global survey admit to using...   Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise  From the global-plot-to-drown-new-yorkers department scibri writes "During the latter half of the twentieth century, global sea level rose by about 1.8 millimeters per year. The combined contribution from heating of the oceans, which makes the water expand, along with melting of ice caps and...   MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates  From the as-seen-on-tv department bonch writes "The MPAA used an undercover agent posing as a potential homebuyer to gain access to the home of a British couple charged with running a streaming links site. UK authorities decided not to pursue the case, but the MPAA continued,...   SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit  From the now-to-build-a-moon-base department terrymaster69 writes "After an aborted launch attempt last week, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon9 rocket Tuesday at 3:44 am EST. SpaceX's founder Elon Musk tweeted: 'Falcon flew perfectly!! Dragon in orbit, comm locked and solar arrays...   DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years  From the freedom-of-movement-denied department An anonymous reader writes with news that might make privacy advocates a bit uneasy. From the article: "Everyone driving on Interstate 15 in southwest Utah may soon have their license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The...   60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016  From the that's-a-lot-of-cat-pictures department CWmike writes "The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives are expected to more than double by 2016, according to IHS iSuppli. Hard drive company Seagate has also predicted a doubling of drive density, and now IHS iSuppli is confirming what...   Depressed People Surf the Web Differently  From the quick-distractions department An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Medical Daily: "Researchers led by Sriram Chellappan from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, collected internet usage data from 216 college students enrolled at the university. The usage...   US ISPs Delay Rollout of "Six Strikes" Copyright Enforcement Framework  From the never-seems-like-a-good-launch-date department zacharye writes with an excerpt from BGR: "The new 'six strikes' anti-piracy policy soon to be implemented by a number of major Internet service providers in the United States will reportedly stumble out of the gate. The policy, which is set to be...   Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android  From the not-bigger-than-a-breadbox department n7ytd writes "Announced today and running on an 800 MHz VIA core, the 170 x 85mm 'APC' is expected to ship this July. It has 2GB of flash storage and 512MB of DDR3 memory. 'A modified version of Google Android 2.3 uses up most of that 2GB of flash...   Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention  From the weapons-grade-software-strikes-back department judgecorp writes with a synopsis of talk given by Kaspersky at CeBit "Cyber weapons are so dangerous, they should be limited by a treaty like those restricting chemical and nuclear arms, Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky has told a...   Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle  From the more-fun-than-a-roller-coaster department cylonlover writes, quoting Gizmag: "Generally speaking, companies developing suborbital manned vehicles brag about how much elbow room their spacecraft will provide passengers. They say there will be plenty of room to float around during the...   UK Draft Energy Bill Avoids Banning Coal Or Gas Power  From the we'll-just-colonize-mars department Bob the Super Hamste writes "The BBC is reporting that the UK's new Draft Energy Bill (PDF) avoids banning coal or gas powered plants. The bill would guarantee profits for new nuclear and offshore wind plants by putting a levy on people's energy...   Microsoft Tests Social Search Waters With 'so.cl' Network  From the solution-looking-for-a-problem department benfrog writes "Microsoft just quietly launched so.cl in an experiment to more closely unite web searches and social networking. It's not intended as a stand-alone social network — users can log in with Facebook or Windows Live IDs, and it...   EU Offers Google Chance To Settle Prior To Anti-Trust Enquiry  From the do-as-we-say department Fluffeh writes "The EU has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in advertising to benefit its own advertising services at the expense of competitors. In a twist however, rather than initiating formal proceedings, the EU has given Google...   Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed  From the destroy-all-copies department NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In one of the mass 'John Doe' cases based on single BitTorrent downloads of films, Malibu Media v. Does 1-13, a pro se litigant made a motion to quash the subpoena. The Court granted a stay of the subpoena, pending its...

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